Provision pach: make partitions only not erase others ldb

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Mar 2 11:26:26 GMT 2009


On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 20:31 +0300, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> This is a proposal for making provision --partitions-only not wipping 
> out some tdb like secrets, idmap and templates.
> 
> As far I understand using --partitions-only should only touch sam.ldb in 
> order to changes the partitions and/or the modules list and a few other 
> options.
> Until now the provision --partitions-only wipeout secrets,idmap and 
> template before setting up the partitions and then returning.
> 
> As it's one of my first patch chances are that it's won't be good 
> directly feel free to comment.

The problem is, that option also has to work for the 'new LDAP dc' and
'new DRSUAPI dc' case too.  We probably need to restructure the options
to make it clear what the administrator wants, and remove confusing
names such as --partitions-only. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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